At Home with the Gaddafis: Dictator Cuddles Grandchildren

Published September 10th, 2011 - 14:35 GMT

An inside sneak glimpse of the fallen Dictator canoodling with family in a video recovered from 2005; Proof in the pudding of the Israeli boycotts'(BDS) economic success; Israel is now down 2 embassies, both Egypt and Turkey; Do Saudi men rely on Viagra to keep their wives satisfied; The Lebanese beauty queen's shortcomings; An Arabic song; and Jordanian youth arise.

At home with the Gaddafis: Extraordinary video shot in notorious tent shows …

The family man, Gaddafi: Even dictators have mothers and grandchildren. Footage leaked from 2005.
"It is a far cry from the brutality of the dying weeks and months of his regime as he clung onto power in the face of a popular insurrection."

"The Israeli produce company Agrexco, which has been a key target of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement in Europe, is set for liquidation, the Israeli business publication Globes reported Tuesday."

Lebanese have always been more entitled to criticize their own than others:
"As I sat with my friend Elia contemplating the beauty of having lots to do and not doing any of it, she showed me this great video of our beauty queen Yara Khoury-Mikhael, proudly and enthusiastically representing our awesome country at the Miss Universe pageant."
Not impressed: "I understand she’s just nineteen. But come on, she should have grown out of this stupidity and into another level of maturity by age fifteen."

"First of all it is not the Israeli embassy that was stormed by a group of Egyptian climbers or protesters or whoever they really are but it is an apartment following the Israeli embassy in the 18th floor that was being stormed. This apartment is like some sort of archives office for the embassy."

Keeping 4 waves satisfied and productive (in a family way) is a tall order:
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"Ever since its availability the drug Viagra has been popular and widely used among Saudi men. I cannot speak for a Saudi man’s virility but a Saudi man likes to be known as being healthy, virile and with strong desires to not only satisfy a woman but to procreate. For those Saudi men who do have more than one wife and wish to keep all the wives sexually satisfied it can be understood that Viagra would be an attractive option to them."

Here's the translation to the song presented in Arabic:
Take me away from Amman, far away
Drive me slowly, on the right, and take me to Shobak
The sound track to this road is a sad one, and my cigarette has simply nodded off
It's forgotten all about me, and thrown me off balance, and kicked me out of my home
It's made us sad, me and you, the both of us
Now it's time to speed up, close your eyes and hit the accelerator
وخدني بعيد عن عمان بعيد برا…
وسوق فيي شوي شوي عليمين، ولعواميد علشوباك بتتوالا.
هادا الطريق أخرتو لحن حزين، والسيجارة نستني نستني.
نستني وشالتني وحطتني وقلبتني من جوا لبرا
خلتني حزين، أنا وياك احنا التنين.
وهلأ صار الوقت تزيد سرعة، سكر عيونك وزيد سرعة.
"There’s something really magical about musically experiencing the familiarities of your marginalized life. Magic is in the details, they say, and something weird happens when these details transcend into song."